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Varsity is an extensive and in-depth collection of stock market and financial lessons created by Karthik Rangappa at Zerodha. It is free and openly accessible to everyone and is one of the largest financial education resources on the web. No signup, no pay-wall, no ads.

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Recent comments

  • 357 Ghanshyam Das Bhagwani on Volatility Basics

    Good Evening Kartik, I have gone through the content but could not apprecoate how the probabilty of 25% & 40% for Nifty has been calculated based on what was covered above. I am just repeating the para below for ease of reference: " So ...

    05 Oct 2026
  • 570 Karthik Rangappa on Delta (Part 2)

    I think we were mid way to expiry. Seller made a huge tactical error - sitting on a highly leveraged trade when such events are there is too much risk in my opinion. Forget the timeline and imagine this playing out now. Imagine t'row is the elec ...

    05 Oct 2026
  • 502 Karthik Rangappa on The Mutual Fund Portfolio

    I'm glad you are starting your investment journey young and that too with a reasonable amount. Since you are young, I'd suggest you invest as much as possible in EQ. Please give your investments enough time or in other words, have a lot of ...

    05 Oct 2026
  • 502 Karthik Rangappa on The Mutual Fund Portfolio

    Thanks for the kind words, Anjali. I hope you will continue to enjoy reading Varsity. Happy learning :) ...

    05 Oct 2026
  • 1125 Karthik Rangappa on Iron Condor

    Piyush, at that point the liquidity for running box and strips was very bad, hence dint cover. ...

    05 Oct 2026

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